Ben Rigby

Turn on your tap and clean water comes out. It’s that simple, right?

Not even close.

I’m a water-treatment expert and third generation water professional. I know what goes into providing clean, clear, and safe drinking water for our communities.

Repealing the Roadless Rule, as decision makers in Washington, D.C. are trying to do, threatens the foundation of our drinking water infrastructure. Since 2001, the Roadless Rule has helped prevent unnecessary road building and development across more than six million acres of undeveloped national forest lands in Montana, many of which directly support municipal and rural drinking water systems.

It’s logical: Roads and their associated uses increase contamination. At the same time, they reduce the ecosystem’s ability to remove that c

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